"A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion." ~ H.L. Mencken

"What we don't understand is why an openly embarrassing interview in Argentina will lead to the termination of their economics minister, yet in the US Paul Krugman grants numerous interviews daily, and has countless blog posts, all of which transcend the merely laughable and tweet mime-inducing, and cross into the grossly surreal, and yet his "reputation" is still intact. Alas, some things that make sense even in Argentina appear far too complicated to be grasped in the US of A."